Exclusive: Italy doubles down on debt sales to retail investors
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy will launch a campaign this month to entice individual investors to buy its government debt and shift some of the burden of funding the fight against the coronavirus from its banks, which are still recovering from the last crisis.Italy is set to borrow half a trillion euros this year to help weather the pandemic and the Treasury is aiming to gradually double the amount of Italian sovereign bonds held by small retail investors."We have about 80 billion euros ($86 billion)..